GRE Word List
PERT
saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured
The meaning of the word pert is saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured.
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| forego | to go before : precede |
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| resign | relegate |
| prong | fork |
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